We Are Borg!

Blessed Are The Record Keepers, For They Connect The Dots
~ Cerebral Gas

With the coming of the digital age, obscure information has become obscenely easy to come by. People are running out of excuses for their blank pedigree charts. Genealogical maps are no longer only for the monetarily blessed. Anyone can research their family tree, and post the findings for all to see. It can work for you, or against you, as proven in a recent article my sister emailed me linking some royalty to treasonous figures of history.

I personally have used the web to find long lost best friends, an ex-husband that ran years ago, I have stumbled across relatives, researched anything from Avian Flu to zymurgy, posted my twisted thoughts for all to read, downloaded literary classics, and posted personal pictures of redneck farm life. Anything you want, anywhere you want to go, it's all in your PC. No passport, no vaccines, no airport security nightmares to deal with. Just push the power button and google away. Awesome!

Once a person discovers the World-Wide-Web (the Borgian collective unconscious to Trekkies), it's hard to resist the pull. You find yourself assimilated into the research Mecca, seemingly without a desire to do otherwise. Only you don't get any cool mechanical appendages fashioned from obsolete digital hardware parts. I take that back, I've seen more than one ass-bag trade in their Lazy-Boy for a top-of-line Wal-Mart desk chair fresh out of the box and smelling curiously like the plastic bag it was packed in, not able to let go of their fancy new wireless mouse that connects them with....everything. Me , for one. Television has lost it's long time standing as number one home entertainment.

I'm really glad to see so many trade in their non-productive hypnotic trance for the interactive learning tool we have now at our fingertips. It's turning the world into a more united working force, mostly for the good.Let me hear a , "WE ARE BORG!"